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1. Flickering Lights and Fractured Souls by JinxesJade

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Not Rated
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • F/M, M/M, Multi
   • Work in Progress

   04 Apr 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
   • Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
   • Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
   • Eddie Munson/Original Female Character(s)
   • Steve Harrington/Original Female Character(s)
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • Will Byers & Dustin Henderson & Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler
   • Steve Harrington & The Party
   • Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Will Byers
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Erica Sinclair
   • Steve Harrington
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Robin Buckley
   • Eddie Munson
   • Joyce Byers
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Karen Wheeler
   • Holly Wheeler
   • Billy Hargrove
   • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
   • Barbara "Barb" Holland
   • Chrissy Cunningham
   • Suzie Bingham
   • Wayne Munson
   • Claudia Henderson
   • Original Female Character(s)
   • Stranger Things Spoilers
   • Original Character(s)
   • Character Death
   • Implied/Referenced Character Death
   • Temporary Character Death
   • Hawkins (Stranger Things)
   • The Upside Down (Stranger Things)
   • Inspired by Stranger Things (TV 2016)
   • Original Character-centric
   • Major Original Character(s)

   Summary

   Hawkins, Indiana, was your average small town in the American Midwest. Until one night, a young boy by the name of Will Byers went missing while riding on his bike home. Now it's up to his three best friends, an illiterate girl with superpowers, his mom, his brother, and his best friend's older sister to save him and the town they love from an undetermined evil. Only in THIS UNIVERSE...there's another stranger in Hawkins.

   Ruby Bullthorne moved to Hawkins in 1982 from Boston after her mom divorced her abusive father. She moved in next door to her mom's childhood best friend and her son, Dustin. And reluctantly enough, Ruby became his babysitter. Meaning endless weekend nights spent at the Wheeler house, chatting to Nancy, and making sure those idiots made it home alright. Until the day when one does not. Suddenly, Ruby becomes an honorary mother/protector to three young boys and a random girl with superpowers in the span of a day. And her life seemed to get STRANGER ever since...

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   111,511

   Chapters:

   24/?

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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